The CDC reports: Shigellosis is a nationally notifiable diarrheal illness caused by gram-negative bacteria. Shigella infection is spread through fecal-oral transmission and sexual contact. Although most infections are self-limited, antibiotics are indicated for severe illness or to reduce transmission in settings with high risk for spread. Since 2015, a growing proportion of cases has been caused by […]
Elizabeth Weise and Steve Sternberg of USA TODAY wrote a few moments ago: Company Expands Hamburger Recall Topps Meat Company has expanded a recall of frozen hamburgers to 21.7 million pounds of patties because they may be contaminated with a deadly type of E. coli, making it the second-largest ground beef recall in U.S. history. […]
Impero Food and Meats, Inc. is voluntarily recalling about 65 pounds of ground beef products because it may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria. The company’s president said the meat was distributed to five pizza restaurants in the Maryland area. The company also says the E. coli was found through routine sampling. Impero Food & […]
Bill Marler, food safety advocate and E. coli attorney, whose Seattle law firm, Marler Clark, has been contacted by five victims of the E. coli outbreak traced to the Topps 21,700,000 pound hamburger recall, called today on Topps to pay the medical bills and lost wages of all individuals who became ill with E. coli […]
Earlier this year J. Patrick Boyle, President and Chief Executive of the American Meat Institute, wrote in part in the New York Times: “Since 1999, the incidence of E. coli in ground beef samples tested by the Agriculture Department has declined by 80 percent to a fraction of a percent, a level once thought impossible.” […]
In June in an Op-ed I warned about the increasing recalls and illnesses tied to E. coli-tainted hamburger and red meat. Now, according to a press release by Topps: Topps Meat Company LLC, located in Elizabeth, NJ, has voluntarily expanded its recall announced on September 25 to include 21.7 million pounds of ground beef products […]
The Associated Press and the Belleville Press Democrat have continued to cover eight cases of E. coli infection reported over the past two weeks in Eastern Illinois. Two people have reported ill in Coles County, about 40 miles south of Champaign, and six cases were reported in nearby Effingham County, health officials said. In Effingham […]
Health officials suspect another Eight Matthew Ralph of the News and Tribune has continued to follow this story: The number of laboratory-confirmed E. coli cases has reached eight with another eight suspected all from the same group of cases linked to Galena Elementary, health officials said Friday. Dr. Tom Harris, Floyd County health officer, said […]
MSNBC and AP reports: USDA finds that Topps’ plant has inadequate safety measures Federal inspectors said Friday that they suspended the grinding of raw products at the Topps Meat Co. after finding inadequate safety measures at the plant, which is being investigated because of E. coli bacteria-tainted hamburgers that may have sickened 25 people. U.S. […]
This year’s E. coli outbreak is larger than the one from the Clackamas County Fair in 2006, when the bacteria infected four people, sending one to the hospital, said William Keene, an epidemiologist for the Oregon Public Health Division. According to the Portland Oregonian, seven people who attended the Clackamas County Fair contracted E. coli […]
We have been contacted and retained by four families as of an hour ago. I thought it might be helpful to let my faithful blog readers know that this is not the first time Topps product has sickened people: www.ecoliblog.com The other interesting fact is that outbreaks and recalls of E. coli (after a several […]
Marler Clark attorney William Marler commented on the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announcement that Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was recalling 331,582 pounds of frozen ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The recall was prompted by a combined New York Department of Health and Centers for […]
I tried to take a day off and get in touch with my “inner outdoorsman” by hunting gators and ducks in Southwest Texas, but E. coli O157:H7 would not leave me alone. Twenty-one people in New York, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania now have become ill after eating hamburgers contaminated with E. […]
OK, that may be on the minds of food manufacturers who poison customers and the insurance corporations who pay claims, but this Associated Press article demands closer reading: Scientists discover germs get stronger when they go into space It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and […]
I have spent the last two days in Houston at the top of the below tower (AIG Insurance Tower) meeting with lawyers in the Con Agra Peanut Butter Litigation. Frankly, there are so many lawyers involved, with so many different agendas, that people are losing sight of the fact that this was a major outbreak […]
The Effingham County Health Department is investigating several cases of E. coli. The health department says it has six confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7. They are all linked to eating at El Rancherito restaurant in Effingham at I-57 and I-70. The health department says the restaurant is cooperating and has been closed since Thursday. […]